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Psa. 64:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Hide me from the secret counselo of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

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Gen. 49:6• ⁶My soul, come not into their council; mine honour, be not united to their assembly; for in their anger they slew men, and in their self-will houghed oxen. (Gen. 49:6)

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Psa. 27:5• ⁵For he will hide me in his tabernacle in the day of evil;{HR}In the secret place of his tent will he hide me;{HR}He will set me upon a rock. (Psa. 27:5)

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Psa. 31:20• ²⁰Thou hidest them in the secret place of thy presence from the plots of man,{HR}Thou concealest them in a tabernacle from the strife of tongues. (Psa. 31:20)

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Psa. 143:9• ⁹Deliver me from mine enemies, Jehovah;{HR}In thee have I hid myself. (Psa. 143:9)

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Isa. 32:2• ²And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. (Isa. 32:2)

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Psa. 56:6• ⁶They gather themselves together, they hide,{HR}They mark my steps while they wait for my soul. (Psa. 56:6)

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Psa. 109:2‑3• ²For [the] mouth of [the] wicked one{HR}And [the] mouth of deceit are opened against me:{HR}They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
³And [with] words of hatred they have surrounded me{HR}And have fought against me without cause. (Psa. 109:2‑3)

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Gen. 4:6• ⁶And Jehovah said to Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? (Gen. 4:6)

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1 Sam. 23:22‑23• ²²Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly.
²³See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah. (1 Sam. 23:22‑23)

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2 Sam. 17:2‑4• ²and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only;
³and I will bring back all the people to thee. The man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: all the people shall be in peace.
⁴And the saying was right in the eyes of Absalom, and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel. (2 Sam. 17:2‑4)

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Jer. 11:19• ¹⁹And I was like a tame lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. (Jer. 11:19)

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Jer. 18:23• ²³Yet thou, Jehovah, knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger. (Jer. 18:23)

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Matt. 26:3‑4• ³Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together to the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas,
⁴and took counsel together in order that they might seize Jesus by subtlety and kill him; (Matt. 26:3‑4)

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Acts 23:14‑15• ¹⁴who therefore came to the high priests and the elders, and said, We have put ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
¹⁵Now therefore do ye, with the council, signify to the commander that he bring him down unto you as though ye would judge his cause more exactly. But we, before he come near, are ready to slay him. (Acts 23:14‑15)

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Acts 25:3• ³asking a favour that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait to kill him on the way. (Acts 25:3)

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Psa. 2:2• ²The kings of the earth set themselves,{HR}And the princes have consulted together,{HR}Against Jehovah and against his anointed: (Psa. 2:2)

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Psa. 3:1• ¹A Psalm of David, on his fleeing from the face of Absalom his son.{HR}Jehovah, how have my persecutors multiplied!{HR}Many are rising up against me. (Psa. 3:1)

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Luke 23:18‑23• ¹⁸But they cried in full crowd, saying, Away with this [man] and release Barabbas for us;
¹⁹one who for a certain tumult made in the city and murder had been cast into prison.
²⁰Again therefore Pilate addressed them, wishing to release Jesus.
²¹But they kept calling in reply, Crucify, crucify him!
²²And he said the third time to them, Why, what evil has this [man] done? I have found no cause of death in him. Having chastised him therefore, I will release [him].
²³But they were urgent with loud voices begging that he might be crucified; and their voices [and those of the high priests] prevailed. (Luke 23:18‑23)

• The wicked, who hate righteousness, seeking to charge evil on the upright. This shows the universality and power of conscience. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 64-77” by J.N. Darby)

• The psalmist spreads out before God the evil devices of the enemy, realizing that the wicked are taking secret counsel against him. (“Psalm 64” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, from the tumultuous crowd of the workers of iniquity,

W. Kelly Translation

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Thou wilt hide me from the secret of evil-doers,{HR}From the tumult of workers of iniquity,